Join the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library for a webinar sponsored in celebration of the library’s 100th year anniversary. Speaker: John Banja, PhD- Emory Center for Ethics Date/Time: Thursday, April 20, 1-2pm Register: https://tinyurl.com/bdh6uuad Having served on the Emory faculty for four decades and observed remarkable changes in health care economics and its delivery over…
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Women’s History Month: The five women who have led the health sciences library
In recognition of March as National Women’s History Month and 2023 as the 100th anniversary year of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, we are honored to share brief highlights of the five women who have served as its library directors. Since the 1923 founding of the WHSC Library, originally dedicated as the A.W. Calhoun…
The Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library Turns 100!
The Abner Wellborn Calhoun Medical Library was established in 1923 with a $10,000 gift from the Calhoun Family to support the Emory University School of Medicine. In 1924, M. Myrtle Tye was selected as the first full-time librarian and tasked with building and maintaining the library collections. Following Tye’s death in 1933, a $175 gift…